Most of us take the Internet for granted, we know that if we type any website on an Internet browser we will get a response. However, come to think of it, the Internet is quite the miraculous creation. In order for a website to be loaded, many things must take…

It’s Friday morning at 6 AM. My Apple Watch vibrates thus waking me up, I reach over and grab my iphone and check a sleep app which tells me how long I have slept and the quality of my sleep. I say my prayers with a prayer app, check email…

…but first! We must understand recursion. As programs become bigger it also becomes more and more important to make your code efficient. That is why having lots and lots of nested loops might be less than ideal. Here is where recursion might come in handy. So, what is recursion? It…

A brief intro into its characteristics, main differences and usage. — According to the merriam-webster dictionary a library is “a place in which literary, musical, artistic, or reference materials (such as books, manuscripts, recordings, or films) are kept for use but not for sale”. From a practical perspective libraries allow you to optimize your time and resources since you do not…

A step by step introduction into what goes on when you type “ls -l *.c” and press enter in a shell First of all, what is a shell? The shell is the most basic way to interact with the system. In fact, every time you use the terminal, you are…

Every program in existence has humble origins aka the source code which are files written in a specific programming language, in our case in C, which is understood by humans but not by computers. This source code must be compiled to machine language in order to be executed by computers…

Both symbolic and hard links are different ways to refer to a file. However, they differ in the way they point to a specific file. While a hard link refers directly to the inode of a file, symbolic links refer to a file which then refers to the inode of…

A quick introduction into the world of static libraries, how to use them, its characteristics and all that good stuff — In real life a library is a place where you can find resources to improve your knowledge on pretty much every topic of your choosing. As it is, you could go out and discover that knowledge on your own but libraries make it easier for you to profit from the…